SandBar Screenshot Gallery

Welcome to the SandBar screenshot gallery. A picture is worth a thousand words, and this page shows off a number of the powerful SandBar features visually. Note that all images are in PNG format so they do not lose any of their original quality.

Figure 1. Using the Office 2003 renderer with the Windows XP Luna Blue color scheme and high quality icons. Note how SandBar is integrating with MDI to provide its own set of MDI control buttons and drawing the child form system menu. The Office 2003-like task pane on the right provides access to common functionality. The popup menu draws a themed shadow behind itself and the statusbar is tracking when the menu system is active.

Figure 2. Using the Office 2003 renderer with the Windows XP Luna Silver color scheme and high quality icons. Note that the flexibility to choose MDI features has been leveraged to turn off both the system menu display and the normal MDI buttons. The task pane contains many different task panels and a menu accessible by clicking on its titlebar that allows the user to easily navigate between them. Although it cannot be shown in a screenshot, you can see the option to switch SandBar between the modes of menu animation (System, Fade, Slide and Unfold).

Figure 3. Using the Office 2003 renderer with the Windows XP Classic color scheme and high quality icons. To demonstrate SandBar's compatibility with locations that demand it, the form has been switched to right-to-left mode. All menus and toolbars have switched to reverse layout of items, including the vertically docked toolbar which is being laid out from bottom-to-top. Also shown in this screenshot is a custom menu, utilizing SandBar extensibility to lay out and draw a color menu such as might be found in a word processor.

Figure 4. Using the Office 2003 renderer with the Windows XP Luna Olive color scheme and high quality icons. One of the toolbars has been torn off and resized by the user to be at a convenient location and size. The actions button has been used on the standard toolbar so that the user can toggle the visibility of all the items on it.

Figure 5. Using the Office 2003 renderer with the Windows XP High Contrast mode enabled. It is essential in a good user interface that accessibility be addressed, and if you use SandBar you do not need to worry about it. Its renderers detect and fully cope with high contrast color schemes. Note how even the 32bit toolbar icons have had their colors dynamically altered by SandBar so that they correctly show up on the new backgrounds.

This screenshot also shows that when space is decreased, some of the toolbar icons disappear in to the chevron menu. All items support an importance level, and using this you can configure some items in your toolbars to disappear before others when space gets tight. The menu is configured so that its items wrap to a new line.

Figure 6. Using the Whidbey renderer with the Windows XP Luna Blue color scheme and high quality icons. This screenshot shows SandBar working together with our SandDock product. SandBar is responsible for all dockable toolbars and menuing, and SandDock is responsible for dockable windows and tabbed document management. When used together it is easy to have an environment like that of Visual Studio up and running in minutes.